What's Happened to John Edwards by Plaid Adder

have not been around the primaries much because, as I said in my last post here, I find the whole thing depressing. I am particularly annoyed by the minute attention being paid by the media to the Clinton and Obama campaigns' interactions, and who said what about whom and who needs to apologize. If these people think that by dissecting a comment Bill Clinton made about Jesse Jackson for evidence of possible racial bias they are in any way furthering the cause of racial equality, they are more deluded than I thought they were. Racial inequality is perpetuated in this country by a number of bedrock economic injustices that neither Obama nor Clinton is talking about addressing, and although it would be nice if we could train everyone to be polite to each other, that by itself will never eradicate racial inequality.

Strangely, the only candidate coming at all close to addressing these issues is John Edwards--because he's taking on class, and not just race or gender. But since the MSM is really giving him no air time whatsoever, and since I no longer have the time to go digging through LBN like I used to, I really don't know too much about the specifics he's proposing. But let me tell you what, from my point of view, is really wrong with this country, the electorate, and in particular this primary race:

We can talk about race, we can talk about gender. But in general, as a society, we cannot talk about money or class. We do not have the vocabulary, the concepts, or--and here I'm talking about the Democratic party elite and their two front-runners--the courage.

The first problem you encounter when you try to talk about class is that most of the people you try to talk to will tell you it doesn't exist--at least not in America. The second problem is that to the extent that people know and use the term "class," it is to describe themselves as "middle class." If you listen to Americans on the subject you would get the idea that they live in a country that's 100% middle class, with no upper or lower. All politicians ever talk about is doing things for the middle class. The closest anyone ever gets to uttering the words "working class" is "working families," as if the work "worker" is so scary it cannot be uttered unless it is immediately domesticated by the word "family." And of course a lot of things are actually done to benefit the rich; but no politician ever admits in public that they work for "the rich." All this capital-gains stuff somehow benefits "the middle class," even though large chunks of "the middle class" have never come near a stock portfolio.

But class divisions in this country are deep, and they are harder to bridge than any other kind. Their causes are not obvious and their remedies are neither clear nor easy. But I'll tell you, when you start raising a kid for the first time, you start to notice these things a lot more.
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